Crisis In Davido’s HKN Gang: B Red,
Sinarambo Might Leave Soon
Family isn’t everything after all…
Nigerian Entertainment Today has gathered, from multiple
sources, that there is major crisis in the HKN Gang; the popular record label
that attained overwhelming fame and success in 2012 may have been bitten by the
recent ‘break up’ bug and might lose two of it’s popular acts B Red and
Sinarambo.
After working together as a music crew for close to a
decade, there are very strong indications that popstar
Davido ‘Davido‘ Adeleke
is parting ways with his pop singing cousins (his father’s elder brother’s
sons) and label mates, Bayo ‘B Red‘ Adeleke and Sina ‘Sinarambo‘ Adeleke.
NET sources say tension has been building among the cousins
for a while ‘but B Red and Sina have been playing it cool’. Apparently, the
lesser known cousins now want out.
Sources tell us a big fight
allegedly ensued between Davido and cousins B Red and Sinarambo some
weeks back in Atlanta – The cousins had accused Davido of not doing much for
their careers as much as he should after they chose him as the label’s front
line act. They also accused him of not giving them a chance to fully promote
their new singles only to overshadow them at any given chance.
Flashback
Some years ago before Davido, B Red and Sinarambo relocated
to Nigeria to fully pursue their music careers, the trio had been working in
Altanta, US as a music crew called B International. Sinarambo was the frontline
artiste with Davido only handling music production. B Red, a very talented
drummer assisted with verses.
Then Davido began pursing a singing career seriously, broke
out as a solo artiste and decided to return to Nigeria in 2010 to fully launch
a music career. Starting off HKN Gang with his elder half-brother Adewale
Adeleke aka Chairman HKN, they added (as only expected) B Red and Sinarambo to
the team and approached M.I‘s manager Abuchi Ugwu to manage him.
Abuchi however turned down the offer (he is credited to
mixing and mastering Davido’s monster hit song ‘Dami duro‘), Davido met up with
a very enthusiastic Asa Asika (Asa in December 2012 parted ways with HKN) and
well, the rest is history. The team planned to push Davido first, then
Sinarambo and finally B Red.
Back To The Present
As we all know Davido’s music career skyrocketed with hit
songs and a debut album ‘Omo Baba Olowo‘. He was immediately placed as an
A-list artiste in Nigeria, topping charts, performing in different continents,
winning awards, and bagging multi-million Naira endorsement deals.
‘Now that Davido has blown, it was Sinarambo and B red’s
turn, but things didn’t seem to follow again‘, a source tells NET. ‘Every time
Sina or B Red released a song or video, Davido would release his own music and
somehow it overshadowed theirs’.
October 15, 2012 - Sinarambo releases his much anticipated
first single-video ‘Ijo sina‘ feat Davido.
October 17, 2012 - Davido releases ‘Gbon gbon‘ off his ‘Omo
Baba Olowo’ album.
February 8, 2013 - B Red releases first single ’Insane girl’
feat Davido.
February 25, 2013 - Davido releases controversial single
‘Gobe’.
Sources say the fight in Atlanta got physical after B Red
and Sinarambo aggressively questioned Davido over the matter. ‘The fight
damaged property in their ATL home, it started in the car and continued in the
house‘.
Davido then traveled to Houston during the All star weekend
to perform alongside Nas. He later traveled back to Nigeria and headed straight
to Ghana for a performance.
Sources say, Sina and B Red were stuck in Atlanta (B Red has
since returned while Sina is still in Atlanta). Davido’s father, we learn is
now aware of the fight and has extricated the cousins. B Red we are told has
also moved out of Davido’s house.
The ‘Insane girl’ singer who is Davido’s official hype man
was missing at Davido’s side at two recent campus performances in the University
of Lagos (UNILAG) and Ibadan (UI). He also didn’t attend Davido’s mum’s
remembrance ceremony.
But Davido’s new manager Kamal (one of the guys who Dr SID
says was present when he had that leaked conversation with Davido) says we
shouldn’t fret. ‘There’s no problem in HKN, Sina is working with some people in
ATL at the moment and B Red is cool with Davido’, Kamal told our reporter in a
telephone conversation.
In related news, it is being reported that Davido has signed
a upcoming pop singers Ghanaian act Deekay and Nigerian act Danagog. This could
not be confirmed as Kamal could not be reached via telephone.
Source:http://thenetng.com